NJA at last!

[CRAWDADDY]

Well I finally “closed the deal” yesterday! After a long, and expensive, summer interviewing with CX & SWA, I ended up at my first choice anyway. NJA, H400, Mar 5th, CMH.


:beer:

Just curious, what turned you off from SWA? I still haven't got the call

 

[FLYLOW22]

Just curious, what turned you off from SWA?

Why not?

 

[AirBear8]

don't know of any airline furloughs that have travel benefits.

US Airways furloughed pilots have non-rev benefits. Catch is you have to pay imputed income tax based on 10% of the cost of a full fare ticket. So if the ticket is $1000 it's treated as $100 of income that is reported to the IRS if you go over $600 worth during the year. So commuting to a job could get expensive at tax time.

AirBear

 

[VVJM265]

Just curious, what turned you off from SWA? I still haven't got the call

A "No Thank You" letter from both CX & SWA. But NJA truely was my first choice for a number of reasons:

- predictable work schedule;
- easy commute to DAL w/i TX (a number of factors go into this one for me including controlability, frequency, crash pad requirements, or lack of, etc);
- good or better 1st year pay when compared to other companies;
- 50% match on the 401K;
- foreseable security and growth of the company;
- full medical and dental (not as big an issue since I'll have Tricare for the medical sideas a military retire, but will need better denatal in a few years (braces) than the Tricare Retirement Dental plan);
- much more interesting flying with the potential to do some more international flying;
- no retirement age;
- no need to drop $8K for a type rating

So like I said earlier - happy as a clam I got my first choice in the end after all.

Best of luck to those still interviewing!
265

 

[Archie Bunker]

Btw, just for fun, I'm still trying to hit 5000 Navy flight hours; only 32 more hours to go....

Holy crap VVJM, you fly waaaaaay too much! How about a nice extended staff tour at BUPERS?

 

[JettBoii]

Congratulations.

 

[Cpt Kangaroo]

App accepted Aug 18th
Got the email a few days ago for a Feb 6/7 interview....FINALLY!!!
Been waiting a while, really looking forward to doing well at the interview and hopefully joining the NetJets family.

Any advice for the interview???

 

[honeycomb]

Six threads down:

http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=91976

There must be 10 dozen threads (3 more active ones) that address this.

Congrats on the interview. Good Luck.



And to stay on topic.....Congrats 265 maybe you'll make 5000 hours too.